Lead poisoning has been a feature of our evolution A recent study found lead in teeth from 2 million-year-old hominin […]
Category: hominins
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached […]
Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species
That leaves a few possibilities: Denisovans, Homo heidelbergensis (the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and our species), or Homo erectus. […]
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
It’s a Denisovan? Always has been. After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like. […]